Student Competition & Emerging Voices from S.E. Asia
IDFA DocLab Competition
Mid-Length Competition
Tyres WP
Unspeak
Voices of El Alto WP
Menno Otten, Tommy Pallotta, Geert van de Wetering, Jennifer Abbott, Rob Schröder, Benoit Detalle, Marija Jacimovic
Benjamin Oroza
Paradocs
Whatever Forever: Douwe Bob WP
Ahaung hma athit Kyaw Myo Lwin
Myanmar, Germany, 2013, DCP, 30 min In a workshop in Yangon, Myanmar, many hands are making many different things. Expert craftsmen transform used car tires into completely new objects. su 24 20:00 Tuschinski 5 mo 25 13:45 Tuschinski 3 we 27 17:30 Munt 9 th 28 21:15 Munt 12 fr 29 10:00 Munt 12
Best of Fests
Ukraine Is Not a Brothel Kitty Green
Australia, 2013, DCP, 78 min “What’s the difference between a prostitute and a feminist?” The paradox of the Ukrainian protest movement Femen. sa 23 22:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal mo 25 13:15 Munt 11 tu 26 22:30 Tuschinski 1 we 27 19:45 Tuschinski 2 [Extended Q&A] th 28 16:15 EYE Cinema 2 su 1 11:15 Munt 9
Panorama
The Netherlands, 2013, cross-platform In this web documentary based on found footage, journalist Steven Poole explains at breakneck speed how the public debate is being corrupted with “unspeak.” On display at the Interactive Reality exhibition at De Brakke Grond throughout the festival.
Via Dolorosa WP
Finland, South Africa, 2013, DCP, 49 min In a tent in the Bolivian mountain city of El Alto, random passersby share their most intimate tales of personal joy and woe. th 21 16:45 Munt 12 [ I.S.] th 21 20:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal fr 22 19:45 Munt 12 tu 26 15:45 Tuschinski 5 fr 29 23:00 Tuschinski 3 sa 30 10:00 Munt 12
Music Documentary
Menno Otten
Linda Hakeboom, Rolf Hartogensis
Panorama
th 28 21:45 Melkweg – Rabozaal fr 29 22:15 Munt 10 su 1 16:15 Munt 12
The Netherlands, 2013, DCP, 15 min Each year, pious men carry heavy religious statues in a procession through the Via Dolorosa in Malaga. In close-ups, we feel both their suffering and their sublime enlightenment. sa 23 15:30 Tuschinski 6 tu 26 21:45 Tuschinski 6 su 1 16:15 Tuschinski 6
The Netherlands, 2013, DCP, 46 min A portrait of musician Douwe Bob Posthuma and his father Simon, who is now paying the price for his own rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. Is that where Douwe Bob is headed? th 21 18:45 Tuschinski 2 sa 23 16:45 Melkweg – Rabozaal [With Live Performance]
The Undertaker WP
The Visit IP
Serbia, Germany, 2013, HDcam, 52 min A Serbian named Bata doesn’t know how much longer he can stand working in his father-in-law’s international undertaker’s business. su 24 20:00 Munt 13 tu 26 13:00 Tuschinski 6 we 27 13:00 Munt 13 th 28 21:30 Podium Mozaïek fr 29 13:30 Munt 10 sa 30 14:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal
Poland, 2013, DCP, 11 min Visitors are welcome every Sunday at a nursing home in the forest, and the residents await their arrival – smoking, pacing and hoping. sa 23 17:30 Tuschinski 6 mo 25 20:00 EYE Cinema 1 tu 26 21:15 Munt 13 we 27 22:30 Tuschinski 6 fr 29 17:30 Munt 13
Masters
Music Documentary
Cambodia, France, 2013, DCP, 55 min A psychological drama about a Cambodian-Cameroonian boy who, searching for his roots, confronts both his family and the UN with their inability to provide a future for him. th 21 18:00 Tuschinski 3 [Extended Q&A] fr 22 22:30 Tuschinski 4 sa 23 12:45 Tuschinski 5 mo 25 15:30 Tuschinski 4
Viva Cuba Libre: Rap Is War EP
Student Competition
Jesse Acevedo
White Soldier
Pogrebnik Dragan Nikolic
The Unknown Known Errol Morris
USA, 2013, DCP, 104 min Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld candidly discusses his enormous archive of political memo’s – about Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. th 21 10:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal fr 22 10:00 Tuschinski 1 sa 23 23:00 Munt 11 we 27 20:00 Tuschinski 4 [ VPRO Extra] fr 29 20:30 EYE Cinema 1 sa 30 18:00 EYE Cinema 2
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Emerging Voices from Southeast Asia
Odwiedziny Matej Bobrik
Cuba, USA, 2012, DCP, 74 min A gripping undercover film about the militant Cuban underground rap duo Los Aldeanos, who tackle the injustices in their country in no uncertain terms. mo 25 14:30 Tuschinski 1 we 27 17:30 Melkweg – Rabozaal th 28 17:15 Munt 9 [DOC U] fr 29 21:00 Melkweg – Rabozaal sa 30 23:45 Tuschinski 3
Where I Go EP Kavich Neang
Danielle Zini
Israel, The Netherlands, 2013, DCP, 55 min Palestinians, conscripts and colonists are confronted by an artist dressed as a soldier all in white, who turns deadly seriousness, humor and discipline upside down. we 20 15:45 Tuschinski 5 th 21 11:15 Tuschinski 3 fr 22 10:00 Tuschinski 5 fr 29 20:00 Tuschinski 4 su 1 16:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam